My Budding Artist

We had an easel outside for Joaquin to paint, but with all the rain lately I dragged it inside and gave him a bunch of markers instead. Since then he has been drawing all the time and he's so excited about being able to actually make drawings rather than just scribbles. Well, they may still look like scribbles to you...but in my mama eyes they're fabulous works of art!

Portrait of his mama...

he told me that that scribble on top was my hair.

A pirate ship...


...and the pirate...


Of course he is experimenting with his artistry in places other than his easel...


He's even used the couch as a canvas...and Isela's face. Yeah. That was so not cute. We continue to try to redirect him to the easel or any acceptable piece of paper and he gets it, it's just a matter of him working with that impulse. At least he's not eating the markers anymore!